Taxon details


Steatoda bipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-01-05
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:008032]
  • Distribution: Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Israel, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China. Introduced to Canada, South America
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Zoological Museum of the Martin-Luther-University, Halle (Saale) (ZMUH), Germany (search of type material, 24.05.2019); f (1525) of Theridium cruciatum Giebel, 1869
Taxonomic references
Aranea bipunctata Linnaeus, 1758: 620 (D).
Aranea 4-punctata Fabricius, 1775: 434 (D).
Aranea punctata De Geer, 1778: 255, pl. 15, f. 1 (D).
Aranea M. album Panzer, 1804b: 149, pl. 161, f. 6 (D).
Theridion 4-punctatum Walckenaer, 1805: 73, pl. 7, f. 69-70 (f).
Theridion 4-punctatum Hahn, 1826: 2, pl. 4, f. A (f).
Theridion quadripunctatum Sundevall, 1831: 11, 1832: 118 (Dm).
Theridion quadripunctatum Hahn, 1833a: 78, f. 58 (f, Dm).
Steatoda 4-punctatum Sundevall, 1833b: 17.
Eucharia bipunctata C. L. Koch, 1835: 134, pl. 10-11 (mf).
Epeira ancora Krynicki, 1837: 81 (Df).
Phrurolithus ornatus C. L. Koch, 1839a: 114, f. 515 (Df).
Theridion quadrimaculatum Walckenaer, 1841: 290 (Dmf).
Eucharia bipunctata C. L. Koch, 1845: 99, f. 1027 (Df).
Eucharia quadripunctata Menge, 1850: 70.
Theridium bipunctata Westring, 1861: 184 (Dm).
Theridium quadripunctatum Blackwall, 1864a: 177, pl. 13, f. 112 (mf).
Eucharia bipunctata Menge, 1869: 260, pl. 49, f. 153 (mf).
Theridium cruciatum Giebel, 1869c: 303 (Df).
Steatoda bipunctata Thorell, 1870a: 91.
Theridium 4-punctatum Bertkau, 1875: 251, f. 15 (f).
Steatoda bipunctata Hansen, 1882: 35, pl. 2, f. 11 (mf).
Steatoda brasiliana Keyserling, 1884a: 115, pl. 5, f. 75 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059819].
Steatoda bipunctata Keyserling, 1884a: 116, pl. 6, f. 76 (mf).
Steatoda brasiliana Keyserling, 1886b: 238, pl. 20, f. 293 (Df).
Steatoda bipunctata Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1894: 37, pl. 1, f. 42 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Becker, 1896: (2): 111, pl. 24, f. 3 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Smith, 1900b: 166, f. 1b (m).
Stearodea bipunctata Strand, 1902: 6.
Steatoda bipunctata Bösenberg, 1902: 113, pl. 10, f. 142 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Reimoser, 1929c: 62, f. 5 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Wiehle, 1937: 193, f. 200-204 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Locket & Millidge, 1953: 56, f. 38A-C (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Chrysanthus, 1955c: 56, f. 1E-H (m).
Steatoda bipunctata Levi, 1957b: 413, f. 86-89, 155-156 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Brændegaard, 1958: 27, f. 17 (f).
Steatoda bipunctata Levi, 1962a: 20 (S of Steatoda brasiliana).
Steatoda bipunctata Azheganova, 1968: 52, f. 87, 99 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Miller, 1971: 186, pl. XXXII, f. 8 (m).
Steatoda bipunctata Palmgren, 1974b: 37, f. 2.1-3, 10.1-4, 16 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Heimer, 1982: 39, f. 5 (m).
Steatoda bipunctata Roberts, 1985: 178, pl. B (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Izmailova, 1989: 89, f. 69 (f).
Steatoda bipunctata Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 298, f. 800 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Roberts, 1995: 274, f. (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Mcheidze, 1997: 182, f. 359-361 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Zhu, 1998: 328, f. 219A-D (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Roberts, 1998: 289, f. (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 128, f. 67E-F, M (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Paquin & Dupérré, 2003: 220, f. 2465-2467 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Knoflach & Pfaller, 2004: 136, f. 19g, 23c, e, 24i (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Knoflach, 2004: 241, f. 86a-b (f).
Steatoda bipunctata Agnarsson, 2004: 586, f. 71A-G, 72A-H (m).
Steatoda bipunctata Almquist, 2005: 91, f. 113a-g (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Agnarsson, Coddington & Knoflach, 2007: 349, f. 33-38 (m).
Steatoda bipunctata Wunderlich, 2008b: 205, f. 51-54 (m).
Steatoda bipunctata Le Peru, 2011: 464, f. 777 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Kaya & Ugurtas, 2011: 149, f. 14-15 (mf).
Steatoda bipunctata Zamani et al., 2017c: 68, f. 5E (f).
Steatoda bipunctata Khasayeva & Huseynov, 2019: 359, f. 11-12 (m).
Steatoda bipunctata Poole, 2019: 3, f. 4 (f).
Steatoda bipunctata Zarikian, 2022b: 174, f. 8A-B (f).
References

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Azheganova, N. S. (1968). Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Bertkau, P. (1875). Ueber den Generationsapparat der Araneïden. Ein Beitrag zur Anatomie und Biologie derselben. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 41(1): 235-262, pl. 7. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Brændegaard, J. (1958). Araneida. In: The Zoology of Iceland. Ejnar Munksgaard, Copenhagen 3(54), 1-113. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chrysanthus, P. (1955c). On defectively regenerated palps in male spiders. Natuurhistorisch Maandblad 44: 56-59. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1894). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae, Budapest, pp. 1-151, Pl. I-V. download pdf -- Show included taxa

De Geer, C. (1778). Des araignées. In: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des insectes. Tome septième. Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm, 176-324, pl. 11-19, 38-39. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Giebel, C. G. (1869c). Am Vierwaldstädter See. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 34: 263-311 (Araneae, pp. 298-307). download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hahn, C. W. (1826). Monographie der Spinnen. Lechner, Nürnberg, Heft 4, pp. 1-2, 4 pls. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.122225 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hahn, C. W. (1833a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Erster Band, pp. 77-129, pl. 19-36 (f. 57-95); Zweiter Band, pp. 1-16, pl. 37-47 (f. 96-105). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hansen, H. J. (1882). Spindeldyr. In: Schiödte, J. C. (ed.) Zoologia Danica. Kjöbenhavn 3, 1-81, I-V. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Izmailova, M. V. (1989). [Fauna of Spiders of South Part of Eastern Siberia]. Irkutsk State University Publishing, 184 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kaya, R. S. & Uğurtaş, İ. H. (2011). The cobweb spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) of Uludağ Mountain, Bursa. Serket 12: 144-153. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1884a). Die Spinnen Amerikas II. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 1, 1-222. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1886b). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Theridiidae. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg 2, 1-295. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Khasayeva, S. I. & Huseynov, E. F. (2019). New records of spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) from Azerbaijan. Euroasian Entomological Journal 18(5): 357-361. doi:10.15298/euroasentj.18.5.09 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Knoflach, B. & Pfaller, K. (2004). Kugelspinnen – eine Einführung (Araneae, Theridiidae). In: Thaler, K. (ed.) Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen und anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 111-160. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Knoflach, B. (2004). Diversity in the copulatory behaviour of comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae). In: Thaler, K. (ed.) Diversität und Biologie von Webspinnen, Skorpionen und anderen Spinnentieren. Denisia 12: 161-256. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1839a). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Fünfter Band, pp. 125-158, pl. 175-180 (f. 418-431); Sechster Band, pp. 1-156, pl. 181-216 (f. 432-540); Siebenter Band, pp. 1-106, pl. 217-246 (f. 541-584). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1845). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Zwölfter Band, pp. 1-166, pl. 397-432 (f. 960-1077). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1835). Arachniden. In: Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.) Deutschlands Insecten. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg, Heft 127-134. [H. 127 & 134 moved from 1834 & 1836 after Nagel & Grieder, 2019: 109] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.15007 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Krynicki, J. (1837). Arachnographiae Rossicae. Decas prima. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalists de Moscou 10: 73-88. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Levi, H. W. (1957b). The spider genera Crustulina and Steatoda in North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 117: 367-424. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1953). British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mcheidze, T. S. (1997). [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi University, 390 pp. (in Georgian). [English version published by Otto (2014) available here] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Menge, A. (1850). Verzeichniss Danziger Spinnen. Neueste Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig 4: 57-71. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Menge, A. (1869). Preussische Spinnen. III. Abtheilung. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig (N. F.) 2: 219-264. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Palmgren, P. (1974b). Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands und Ostfennoskandiens. V. Theridiidae und Nesticidae. Fauna Fennica 26: 1-54. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Panzer, G. W. F. (1804b). Systematische Nomenklatur über weiland Herrn Dr. Jacob Christian Schäffers natürlich ausgemahlte Abbildungen regensburgischer Insekten. Joan. Jac. Palm, Erlangae [= Johann Jakob Palm, Erlangen], 160 pp. [the plate and figure numbers refer to (partly unnamed) species, figured by Schäffer, presumably in 1791 (or 1766), see Univ. Göttingen and doi 10.5962/bhl.title.9162 (plates here are not complete)] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.101964 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Paquin, P. & Dupérré, N. (2003). Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Supplement 11: 1-251. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Poole, J. (2019). Looking at spiders in a new "light". Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 145: 2-3. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Reimoser, E. (1929c). Einheimische Spinnen 3-4. Die Natur (Wien) 5: 36-39, 62-65, 82-89. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1985). The spiders of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1: Atypidae to Theridiosomatidae. Harley Books, Colchester, England, 229 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Smith, F. P. (1900b). An introduction to British spiders [continued]. Science-Gossip New Series 7(73, 74, 77, 78, 79): 14-16, 45-47, 138-140, 166-167, 206-207. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1902). Theridiiden aus dem westlichen Norwegen. Bergens Museums Aarbok 1902(6): 1-23. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Walckenaer, C. A. (1841). Histoire naturelle des Insects. Aptères. Tome deuxième. Roret, Paris, 549 pp., pl. 16-22. [not published in 1837, see pp. 430, 452, 505; plates in second pdf of Walckenaer, 1837] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Westring, N. (1861). Araneae svecicae. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 7: 1-615. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiehle, H. (1937). Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. 26. Familie. Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008b). On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 140-469, 792-794, 796-800, 803, 819-859. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Dolejš, P., Marusik, Y. M., Esyunin, S. L., Hula, V. & Ponel, P. (2017c). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part IV. Acta Arachnologica 66(2): 55-71. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.55 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zarikian, N. A. (2022b). New records on Salticidae and Theridiidae (Araneae) spiders from Armenia. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum 17(2): 169-185. doi:10.26842/binhm.7.2022.17.2.0169 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. (1998). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 436 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2023-01-05 New taxonomic reference entry Zarikian, 2022b n/a
2021-07-20 New taxonomic reference entry Poole, 2019 n/a
2021-05-26 New taxonomic reference entry Bertkau, 1875 n/a
2020-11-24 New taxonomic reference entry Smith, 1900b n/a
2020-01-23 New taxonomic reference entry Khasayeva & Huseynov, 2019 n/a
2017-12-17 New taxonomic reference entry Zamani et al., 2017c n/a
2017-12-17 Species distribution update Zamani et al., 2017c n/a (Old value)